Story+2008-03-06+Rochester,+NY

“Good evening, fine citizens of Rochester (crowd cheers) we´re so glad to be in your beautiful city tonight…are you ready for the biggest little bar band in the world? (crowd cheers) are you ready to jump, shout and to crawl on your belly like a reptile? (crowd cheers) are you ready to be transformed? (crowd cheers) then what I wanna know is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, intro to “Night”**

“Is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, intro to “Radio Nowhere”**

“Yeah, good evening, everybody (crowd cheers) yes, it is…ooh!... alright, nice to be in Rochester (crowd cheers) got the key to this city here today in honor of this…I don´t know, maybe they, they probably give those out to everybody who comes along…you know… (?) I gotta thank, thank the folks of Rochester and the Mayor for the key to this city…in case I have a, uh, you know, complete celebrity meltdown, I´ll know where to come for a meal and a beer …got a key to this city!...if I come back, if I come back and it´s all gone horribly wrong, you gotta let me in…that´s what the key to this city says, no matter how much this person´s fucked up from now, you still gotta let him in (crowd cheers) gives me a little security, I like that…in my old age and, uh, let me see, Patti sends her best, she sends her love…we got the, uh, three teenagers now so, uh, I think as I left, I believe as I left, all our three cars had just been stolen so…she´ll figure that out, she´ll figure it out…and Danny sends his best, alright (crowd cheers) he´s, uh, doing quite well and, uh, I believe he´s gonna make it out on the leg, this leg of the tour at some point (?) that´ll be nice, in the meantime we thank Charlie Giordano from the Sessions Band…and, uh, ok, this is to the end of, uh, seven years of magic tricks…”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, intro to “Magic”**

“Alright, everybody! (crowd cheers) how we doing out there tonight? (crowd cheers) Rochester! (crowd cheers)…oh yes…alright, kid…I think you get a little stir-crazy up here in the wintertime…yes, yes (chuckles) this is a song called ´Livin´ in the Future´…but it´s about what´s happening now…how along with all the things that we, that we love about America and…and the place we come from, all the things we hold dear, we´ve had to add to the American picture over the past seven years things like rendition and illegal wiretapping and no Habeas Corpus or the right to defend yourself against the charges brought against you in court, these are all things that growing up in the States we always heard about happening someplace else so this is a song about sleeping through changes that you thought could never happen here that happen here…but I think there´s a new wind blowing out there (crowd cheers) and the E Street Band is here tonight to give it a mighty little push (crowd cheers) by singing about it (chuckles) so help me out, Max…”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, intro to “Livin´in the Future”**

“That´s right…there´s a new wind blowing, let´s bring it home…”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, intro to “The Promised Land”**

“(?)…Rochester! (crowd cheers) oh, that´s pretty impressive…this is a good building, is this a new building or an old building (crowd: ´Old´) old building, see, that´s, the old buildings are still the best buildings…yeah, a good building…alright, for Rochester…”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, intro to “Racing in the Street” (following “Waitin´ on a Sunny Day”)**

“Rochester! (crowd cheers) give yourselves a round of applause (crowd cheers) oh yeah…Lord, this is a very good building this building…alright, we´ve got some friends in the hall tonight, folks from Foodlink and Rochester Roots…they, Foodlink´s got a 25-year history of feeding hungry people in the Greater Rochester area… they annually re-distribute over six million pounds of food to the hungry in the Genesee Valley and Finger Lakes region so check out Foodlink and Rochester Roots who are committed to creation of urban school and community garden-based programs for youths and adults, they help people focus on growing, preparing and enjoying food that´s good for them and safe, Foodlink and Rochester Roots, they´re here in your neighbourhood serving, uh, the citizens of this part of New York, please give them a hand on the way out if you can, they deserve your support (crowd cheers) alright, this is for all the New York girls (crowd cheers) Rochester girls (crowd cheers) all of New York (crowd cheers) all the women underneath the roof (chuckles)(crowd cheers)(chuckles) and for one gal in New Jersey, alright…”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, intro to “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”**

“Alright, where did your sign go?...[picks up sign saying “Rosalita, please”]…it´s been a long time, I don´t think we know it…I don´t think we know that one…we might not get through it, I don´t know…”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, intro to “Rosalita”**

“Thank you, Rochester, for coming out to the show!...let´s go… (…) Garry W.Tallent (crowd cheers) Little Steven Van Zandt (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the mighty Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano for Dan Federici (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and you wanna be like him but you can´t, Clarence ´Big Man´ Clemons (crowd cheers) Rochester! (crowd cheers) you´ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shaking, booty-quaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, sexy-making, legendary (crowd: ´E Street Band´)…”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, intro to “American Land”**

“Rochester, number one, baby!...don´t let them knock this building down, keep it up here…we love you, we´ll be seeing you!...”
 * 06.03.08 Rochester, NY, after “American Land”**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//